The Congress party has emerged the first political outfit in Telangana to announce its election manifesto with a promise to revise it further by adding more welfare schemes and providing finer details on certain schemes later.

HYDERABAD: Election fever has gripped the political parties in Telangana amidst the buzz that the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government may decide on dissolving the Assembly on Thursday morning to go for early polls before December.

The Congress party has emerged the first political outfit in Telangana to announce its election manifesto with a promise to revise it further by adding more welfare schemes and providing finer details on certain schemes later.

Addressing the media in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy announced large welfare schemes that include Rs 5 lakh per double-bed houses to the below poverty line (BPL) families if voted to power.

The Congress has also promised to clear all the pending dues of housing scheme under ‘Indiramma Illu’ taken up under the Congress rule till 2014 and to build at least two lakh double bedroom houses every year if elected to power. The key opposition party in Telangana has also promised to distribute key staple food grains such as wheat, rice, sugar and kerosene under public distribution system to the dalit families at free of cost, apart from free domestic power supply of 200 units a month.

Targeting the educated unemployed youth earlier last week, the Congress had announced to fill at least one lakh government jobs if voted to power, apart from filling another lakh jobs in the private sector. The opposition party has also promised to offer an allowance of Rs 3,000 a month to nearly 10 lakh unemployed youth in Telangana.

TPCC president Reddy said the creation of jobs would be among the top priorities of next Congress government. Further, the opposition party has also announced Rs 2 lakh financial assistance to youths who marry differently abled persons and scheduled caste persons.

Meanwhile, the ruling TRS party headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was seen swiftly changing gears and announcing to organise large public meetings in at least 100 Assembly constituencies over the next 50 days, beginning with Husnabad on Friday. This comes close on the heels of ‘mother of all public conferences’ that the ruling party organised on Hyderabad outskirts last Sunday.

The opposition parties including the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have cried foul over deletion of over 20 lakh voters from the electoral rolls, apart from criticising the reported move of the ruling TRS party to dissolve the Assembly and opposing the early polls.

TDP Telangana unit president L Ramana, who held a meeting at the party headquarters in Hyderabad with senior party leaders to discuss the possible electoral alliances, said the party national president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will on Saturday decide on the alliances.